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index • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Abelove, Henry, 243 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 24, 320 Advocate, 18 African Americans: gay, in World War II, 86 (ill.), 92–93, 101 (ill.); post–World War II, 94; Vietnam War deaths of, 210; women, and poetry as the voice of, 245; and steamship hiring practices, 265, 279, 287, 300–301, 306, 307, 308–9; strikebreaking by, 300–301 AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge (KüblerRoss ), 153 AIDS/HIV: “Resorts for Sex Perverts,” 13, 67–81, 68 (ill.); past-present parallels in works on, 13–14; “Caught in the Storm,” 20, 147–60; Forget-Me-Nots group, 24; “Don’t Save Us from Our Sexuality,” 62–66, 63 (ill.); HIV-negative group, 215–19 AIDS memorial march, 149 AIDS Names Project quilt, 148 (ill.), 151 Alexander, Dorothy, 279 Alexander, Emma, 279 Alexander, H. F., 279 Alexander, Ruth, 279 Alexander Steamship Line: black stewards on, 265, 279, 287, 300–301, 307; gay stewards on, 265, 301–2; unofficial newspaper of, 301–2; Communist Party members banned from, 303, 305; 1934 strike and, 304–5; out of business, 309 Alger, Horatio, 9 Allen, Gracie, 294 Allison, Dorothy, 180 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 21, 125, 129–30, 136–41 American Friends Service Committee, 5 Anderson, Cora, 43–44 Anderson, Larry, 248 Anger, rhetoric of, 236 Antigay legislation, 8, 24, 29, 54–55 Antihomosexual campaigns: “Behind the Specter of San Francisco,” 13, 54–61; national, 76; post–World War II, 96, 110–12 Arnaz, Desi, 186 Asian seamen, 282 Asian stewards, 287, 300, 305, 306, 307 Astor Hotel, 108 Avalon, 288 Bailey, Bill, 280–81 Baker, Tom (pseud.), 308–9 Baldwin, James, 164, 180, 204, 225 Ball, Lucille, 186 Ballard, Scotty, 295 (ill.), 317 Baptist Ministerial Alliance, 317 Barracks, 73 Barrett, David, 265–66, 312 Bars, gay and lesbian: attempts to close and closing of, 54, 60, 96–97; police harassment of, 75–76; during World War II, 93, 107–8, 117; post–World War II FBI surveillance of, 96; and post–World War II activism, 97; “turning” of, 206 Barzun, Jacques, 9 Bathhouses: “Resorts for Sex Perverts,” 13, 67–81, 68 (ill.); in New York City, 29, 74; “Don’t Save Us from Our Sexuality,” 62–66, 63 (ill.) Bawer, Bruce, 223 Bay Area Reporter, 74, 157 Bayonne, N.J., 183–84, 189, 276–77 “B-D Women” (Jackson), 52 Bean, Babe (Elvira Virginia Mugarietta), 12, 42 (ill.), 46–47, 51 Beasley, Ralph, 309 Beat the Clock, 189 “Behind the Specter of San Francisco” (Bérubé), 13, 54–61 Ben, Lisa, 87 Ben-Shalom, Miriam, 21 Bérubé, Allan: awards of, 1, 29, 31 (ill.); as scholar activist, 1–2, 3–4; death of, 2, 33; photographs of, 2, 11, 19, 23, 25, 31, 33, 148, 183, 260; description of, 3, 6, 16; influences on, 4, 5, 8, 28, 180; belief of, in collective, 4, 7, 12; friendships of, 4–5, 26, 28, 29, 31–32, 274–75; selfdescription , 5, 9, 19; as gay community historian, 7–17, 18–19, 20; celebrity of, 324 : index 12, 24; and longing for home, 162–63, 175, 177, 200–201, 275–78 —as activist: moral activism of, 4; antiwar activism of, 4–5; and gay liberation movement, 6–7; and military antigay policy, 22–23, 210; and Hardwick protest, 24, 25 (ill.); and AIDS/HIV, 24, 215–19; and bathhouse closures, 29, 62–66; beginnings of, 175; race and class as central to, 203–5; “Pale, Male— and Anti-Racist” workshop of, 220–25; union membership of, 275 —background of: personal journey, 1; employment, 3–4, 6–7, 16, 32, 263; education, 3–5, 171–74, 194–96, 198, 277; alternative military service, 5; New York City years, 28–30; Liberty, N.Y., years, 31–32; ancestry, 161–62; family migration patterns, 163–67; childhood, 167–70, 182–201, 276–77 —self-identity of: as class trespasser/ outsider, 3–4, 18, 19–20, 30, 161–80, 198–99, 246; as pretender, intellectual, 163; as gay white man, 203; class struggle within, 242–45 —sexual orientation of: coming out, 5–6, 174–75; homosexual realization, 168– 69, 198; sexual migrant, 175 —works of: Coming Out Under Fire (book), 1, 3, 17–18, 20–21; primary areas of, 2–3; Living at War (ed.), 4; “Statement of Belief,” 4; “To Acknowledge Every Person as a Person,” 4; Fag Rag, 6; “Lesbian Masquerade” (slide lecture), 12, 15–16, 42 (ill.); envisioned, 12–13; “Behind the Specter of San Francisco...

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